On the eve of Ramadan 2024, I read the first Surah of the Holy Quran. In this episode, I try to introduce the prayer to non-Muslims.

In this episode, I talk about two books written in early days of the British Raj. The first one is Confessions of a Thug by Captain Taylor. The second one is Journal of a Route to Nagpore by Daniel Robinson Leckie.

We discuss of this couplet of Mirza Ghalib and discuss the story of Adam and Eve from Quranic perspective.

In this episode, we talk of Kalidas's Meghdoot and Amitabh's rimjhim ghire sawan on a cloudy day.

We read Faiz Ahmed Faiz's poem "Kab tak dil ki khair manayein?"

मता ए गै़र - साहिर लुधियानवी

In the episode, we read J. D. Salinger's groundbreaking novel The Catcher in the Rye.

We read part of a chapter from J. M. Coetzee's semi-fictional autobiographical novel Youth.

The nature of jinns, the creatures made of smokeless fire. Opening pages of Salman Rushdie's novel Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, i.e. one thousand and one nights.

Today we start a new series where we will read a section from books that we are reading. Today's episode is a reading from Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste - The Origin of Our Discontent."